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A French army soldier of the 1er Regiment d'Helicopteres de Combat (1st Combat Helicopter Battalion) pushes a Viviane Gazelle helicopter at the French Helicopter Battalion "Mousquetaire" at the Kabul International airport in Kabul. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014.

A French army soldier of the 1er Regiment d'Helicopteres de Combat (1st Combat Helicopter Battalion) pushes a Viviane Gazelle helicopter at the French Helicopter Battalion "Mousquetaire" at the Kabul International airport in Kabul. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014. (Getty Images)

A French army soldier of the 1er Regiment d'Helicopteres de Combat (1st Combat Helicopter Battalion) pushes a Viviane Gazelle helicopter at the French Helicopter Battalion "Mousquetaire" at the Kabul International airport in Kabul. France is the fifth largest contributor to NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is due to pull out the vast majority of its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014.